Business/Corporate

The anti-SLAPP law does not bar a Chapter 93A counterclaim brought in response to a lawsuit by the Gillette Company alleging that former employees misappropriated trade secrets when they went to work for a rival manufacturer of shaving products, the ...

Where a plaintiff has alleged that defendants for whom she formerly worked provided an adverse employment reference, that allegation is sufficient to satisfy the adverse employment action component of a Title VII claim. Accordingly, the defendants’ motion to dismiss the ...

Where a plaintiff employee of the defendant city of Newton alleged that she was turned down for a temporary Traffic Officer specialist position in retaliation for exercising her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the plaintiff had the ...

Whether an acquiring company will be able to enforce an employee non-compete agreement entered into by its predecessor will have everything to do with how its acquisition is structured, a pair of recent decisions by a judge in the Business ...

Where a plaintiff, who was fired after reporting management lapses at the defendant bank to state and federal regulators and fellow bank officers, has alleged wrongful retaliation by the bank in violation of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement ...

In 2002, the claimant founded and was a member of a venture capital firm. Over time, he recruited and hired three other members to join him at the firm. In November 2011, those three members apparently decided to force the ...

Where a plaintiff has brought an interference claim under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the defendants are not entitled to summary judgment despite the fact that the plaintiff violated the employer’s call-in policy by failing to personally contact her ...

Where a disability discrimination suit arising out of the alleged refusal of certain Uber drivers to permit a guide dog to accompany a visually-impaired rider has been removed from state court, the plaintiff’s motion to remand must be denied, as ...

Where a defendant has filed a counterclaim requesting a preliminary injunction to prevent the plaintiff from enforcing a one-year non-compete agreement, that request must be denied based on the absence of irreparable harm. “Here, [defendant David] Keefe has not demonstrated ...

Where (1) a plaintiff company sued four of its former employees, claiming that they misappropriated the plaintiff’s trade secrets and other confidential information to develop a wet-shaving razor for the benefit of their new employer and (2) the new employer ...